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...bitch, she was a proper bitch, a polite bitch--the photos in The Crimson always showed her in demure, ladylike poses [see photo, right]. But on the council that Maya Prabhu describes, the tension between aggressive and feminine could put her in a bind. While she tried to navigate her goals through the council's hierarchy, Prabhu ran up against her appearance, demeanor, and gender--learning, for example, that she had won a secret "contest" for being the council's "sexiest and classiest dresser...
Being attractive can be important, Prabhu was told. When she ran for vice-chair the fall of junior year, she says, one male council member told her that she shouldn't worry about another female candidate, because the opponent "has got bigger tits than you have, but you've got better legs. She's blond, she's blond, and you're not, and you come across as more competent...
...Prabhu's date rape activism that led her to consider the race for vice-chair. She agonized over whether...
...Prabhu had an archnemesis, it was certainly Beys: overtly political, rarely polite or proper, an operator who hadlost $10,000 of the council's money on a De LaSoul concert. It was the bushy-haired Greek in theSpee versus the prim Canadian in the widebrimmedhat...
...People told me that if I didn't run, I'd beletting the council down," Prabhu recalls. "No oneelse had the strength and personality to keep theplace honest." Without skipping a beat, she adds,"How ironic is that...